Helen, Am Samstag, 3. November 2018, 04:53:39 CET schrieb Helen Koike: > As mentioned in the discussion from the previous version of this patch, Android > and Chrome OS do not use initramfs mostly due to boot time and size liability. Do you have numbers on that? I understand that using something like dracut with systemd inside is not what you want from a boot time point of view. But having an initramfs embedded into the kernel image which contains only a single static linked binary can be *very* small and fast. If you invest a little more time, you don't even need a libc, just fire up some syscalls to setup your dm. I use this technique regularly on deeply embedded systems to setup non-trivial UBIFS/crypto stuff. Want I'm trying to say, before adding ad-hoc a feature to the kernel, we should be very sure that there is no other way to solve this in a sane manner. We have initramfs support for reasons. Thanks, //richard
